Taylor Family Slander Dispute in 1648

Minutes of the Manchester Presbyterian Classis

Edited by William A. Shaw
Part I, Chetham Society, 1890

The 17th MEETING at Manchester, March 8, 1847/8

[p79] 3. Samuel Taylor brought an appeale from the elder at Chollerton to the classis, in a difference betwixt him and his brother Nathaniel Taylor, accusing the said Nathaniel to have wrongfully slandered him.  The said Nathaniel to be sumon'd to the next classis.  The sd Samuel to have warrant for witnesses.

Zachariah Taylor (1618-1692)

Bolton Bibliography and Jottings of Book-lore

By Jas. C. Scholes, 1886, Manchester
Chapter 5 - pp36-49
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Page 43. In another note in the same book Canon Raines, referring to the Rev. Zachariah Taylor, jun.-"The Lancashire Levite" -says "I think he was a native of Manchester parish, as Zachary Taylor, of Holt Hall, Rusholme, in that parish had several children christened  at the Coll: Church between 1640 and 1650.  The Taylors of Moston were of this family; it had many branches."

Pictures of Moston Bottoms

According to A.A. Gomme (19 J. Pat. Off. Soc'y 256 1937) Samuel Taylor of Moston, patentee of a thread making engine in the 1720s, "built a house in Moston Bottoms and certainly had more than one mill in his possession on the same water-courses in Moston"

Moston Bottoms in 1911

Wills of Zachariah & Samuel Taylor of Moston 1660s

Will of Samuel Taylor of Moston, 1664

Samuel Taylor of Moston, signature in 1664